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Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity (www.axios.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It’s Twitter. No need to adopt his pet name for it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was Xitter, where the X is pronounced with the Chinese "sh" pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Exactly. It's now Xitter, pronounced as "Shitter".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

In Europe, the chocolate bar "Twix" was called "Raider" until the 1990s or so. When they changed the name, they ran a famous ad campaign with the slogan "Raider is now called Twix!" which is still not only remembered but even became an ironic saying (at least in Germany) for when things (try to make it) seem like they change but they actually stay the same.

So... Twitter is now obviously called Twix for me.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Twitter (Currently known as Elon Musk's X) has a nice ring to it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

I'm going to call it Grimes now

it's Elon Musk's x

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Twitter (the X social media site)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Happy first cake day!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Twitter (desperately purporting to be Elon Musk's X)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Xitter has an even better ring to it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I"m conflicted because I hate deadnaming people....

But corpos aren't people, so fuck em

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In other news, Elon Musk sues Fidelity...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

He buys them.

This is what he did when he bought Twitter. He removed that guy who was posting his plane/traveling schedule. I'm sure he was this petty.

[+] [email protected] -24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is this "Technology"?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Twitter is a technology company, therefore, it is relevant technology news. Complaining every time Twitter news appears here will not stop Twitter news from appearing here.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not Twitter=bad, it's about Twitter valuation. I don't care what company it is, if it's about financial valuations then it's not really tech related. Just my opinion. I want to be able to find what I want where, if I wanted valuations I would seek out a finance community.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not Twitter=bad, it’s about Twitter valuation.

except there’s a very clear connection between these two which is tech related: Twitter, a tech company.

I want to be able to find what I want where

here’s the thing: this isn’t your community tailored for your specific tastes. if that’s what you want, you’re free to make your own community with blackjack and hookers and whatever you want in it. This, here, is a community for technology news and articles, and Twitter news - because it is a tech company which does tech things - is considered tech news. complaining about it will not stop Twitter news from appearing here, no matter what ridiculous reasoning you come up with.

I don’t like sports, but if Microsoft released a new FIFA game for Xbox, it would be equally bonkers for me to whine that sports were being discussed in a tech community because I only come here for tech news, not sports/esports/gaming/Microsoft news.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's not pretend these things make it because they are tech related, we all know it's simply Musk gets clicks. If I start posting articles about the financial health of any FAANG or smaller company, they would remain down or unvoted like everything else.

Your argument would make sense if it included other tech companies, however for some reason it always seems to be Twitter. And I can complain because we all know there are thousands of communities with no traction and daily posts of "how do ai advertise for my community". Might as well rename it to "Twitter updates and other unrelated tech news"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I repeat:

This, here, is a community for technology news and articles, and Twitter news - because it is a tech company which does tech things - is considered tech news. complaining about it will not stop Twitter news from appearing here, no matter what ridiculous reasoning you come up with.

also, you say:

Your argument would make sense if it included other tech companies

I did: I cited Microsoft in my second example. once again, no matter what absurd excuse you devise for your whining and complaining, Twitter news is tech news, and it will continue to appear here.